Madeleine Böhm, Dr. des.

Madeleine Böhm has been the academic coordinator of the doctoral program “De-Globalization and Global Decoupling (DeGlobE)” since September 2025. 

Previously, she worked as a researcher at the Chair of International Relations at the University of Erfurt and at the University of Freiburg. She studied at the University of Erfurt, the University of Freiburg, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi), and the University of Cape Town.

She wrote her dissertation, entitled “(In)visibilities, Order, and Society: Digital Technologies in a Global Context,” on the question of how social change and digital technologies can be considered together in a global context. Her work addresses interdisciplinary research in (international) political sociology and economics. She is currently engaged in the reconstructive analysis of global platform companies' conceptions of world order and issues of deglobalization and geoeconomics.

Madeleine is a member of various academic associations, the centre for emancipatory technology research and the DFG network on emancipatory technology research

• International Political Sociology
• Social Theory
• Theories of International Relations
• International Political Economy
• digital technologies and infrastructures
• platform work
• digitalization, social and political order and imaginaries
• de-globalisation
• geoeconomics
• qualitative methods, objective hermeneutics

Böhm, Madeleine. 2025. “Algorithms, AI, Big Data, and Big Tech: IPS Scholarship on Digital Technologies.” International Political Sociology 19 (3): olaf019. doi:10.1093/ips/olaf019.

Gruszka, Katarzyna, and Madeleine Böhm. 2022. “Out of Sight, out of Mind? (In)Visibility of/in Platform-Mediated Work.” New Media & Society, 24, 24 (8): 1852–71. doi:10.1177/1461444820977209.

Kress-Ludwig, Michael, Simon Funcke, Madeleine Böhm, and Chantal Ruppert-Winkel. 2019. ‘A Citizen Survey in the District of Steinfurt, Germany: Insights into the Local Perceptions of the Social and Environmental Activities of Enterprises in Their Region’. Sustainability 11 (6): 1767. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11061767.